What is Tassomai?
Tassomai is an adaptive learning program helping secondary schools impact on attainment levels in a range of subjects at Key Stages 3 and 4.
Originally designed to support GCSE science, Tassomai has expanded to cover maths, English language and science at KS3/4 and English literature, geography, history and computer science at KS4 only. MFL vocab courses are also available.
Tassomai’s multiple choice micro-quizzes reinforce knowledge through targeted repetition, like a flashcard. The quizzes are supported by short explainer videos and curated links to relevant external resources. An in-built, AI-powered tutor called 'Mai' is also available to help answer questions from students. At the same time the algorithm is learning each student’s strengths and weaknesses; it uses this information to target the gaps in a student’s knowledge and provide feedback to teachers on which areas individuals and entire classes need help with.
Tassomai saves teachers time in two ways; it teaches AO1s, while also reducing the time they need to spend analysing their students, meaning they can focus on teaching and targeting intervention.
As well as being used in schools, Tassomai is also available for private subscribing families, supporting learners from year 3 to year 11 in all of the subjects mentioned above, plus French and Latin.
Schools and private subscribing families can both trial Tassomai for free via the Tassomai website.
Recommended Usage
Our product presents students with a target: a “Daily Goal” of multiple choice questions for them to try and answer, on average the goal is about 40 questions per day.
The teacher dashboard presents students’ usage over the past 7 days, and classifies engagement under three headings: Engaged (students who’ve completed their Daily Goal 4+ times over the last 7 days), Struggling (students who’ve completed their DG 2-3 times) or Lapsed (students who’ve completed less than 2 DG). However, not all schools use the DG system as a means of measuring engagement.
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Tassomai Ltd. HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2012 |
| Age Range | 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | Exam-board Specific QuizzesRetrieval PracticeAi-powered TutorTeacher DataSchool DataText To Speech FunctionalityDark ModeStudent AppParent AppParental Engagement FeaturesPersonalised LearningAdaptive LearningTeacher DashboardPrintable Pdf ReportsParental Progress Report Emails |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Tassomai is accessed through a web browser or via our mobile app and it doesn't use a lot of mobile data. |
 Set Up | First, schools are sent a setup form, in which we take the information required to build orders to our system. During setup, we recommend schools book in a training demo, with at least two members of staff present. Once setup is complete, all staff receive a launch email, containing their school’s unique activation code. This code is then used by their students on our website to create their accounts. Students select their class from a dropdown which is created from the information provided on the setup form. Both staff and students require access to an internet-enabled computer or laptop in order to login to Tassomai. Tassomai is supported by all major internet browsers. Additionally, students with a smartphone will be able to download our mobile app for free and access Tassomai anywhere with an internet signal. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineDocumentationVideos We strongly encourage schools (particularly new schools) to book a 30 minute training demo. Conducted via screen-share software, unless specifically requested to be in-person, departments will go through how Tassomai works from both a staff and student perspective, with time left at the end for general Q&A. These can be filmed and shared with the school afterwards as a reference point, or for teachers who were unable to make the original demo. We also have lots of helpful content for teachers and students on our blog. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support Teachers have access to a dedicated Teacher Hub which includes "how-to" videos. |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. If you are a parent whose child has Tassomai through their school you will be able to log in to your personal parent dashboard to view their progress and you will receive weekly progress reports by email. If you do not receive parent reports, you can ask your child's school to contact the Tassomai admin team to get this up and running. If you are a private subscribing parent you will have access to your own account to manage it. |
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Tassomai PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Tassomai pricing starts from £5.00 / per-pupil School packages: For each cohort that Tassomai is bought for, the cost per student becomes cheaper. Buying for 1 cohort costs £15 per student (annually), but if you buy for 5 cohorts (i.e. years 7-11), the most you will pay is £5 per student. When you buy for a cohort, up to 2 core subjects are included in the price. Private subscribers: Payment is by a monthly rolling subscription which gives access to all relevant subjects, these vary depending on the child's age. Private subscriptions start from £8.99 per month for younger learners. See the Tassomai website for more information and to start a free 7-day family trial.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Tassomai Reviews
from 57 Verified Reviews
User rating
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Jul 2024
Tassomai has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on pupil effort and progress whilst simultaneously reducing teacher workload and allowing staff to amend their teaching to take account of misconceptions and tricky areas for pupils. Checking homework couldn't be easier which has also had a positive impact on communication with parents and carers. The whole team at tassomai are friendly, efficient and innovative - they are a pleasure to work with!
Holly Bradshaw found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework is set in a matter of seconds each week and yet is truly tailored and meaningful for each pupil. Tassomai is user friendly and makes checking completion and quality of homework really simple. By using technology to deliberately target the areas pupils need to work on more, it feeds back information to help with lesson planning and specific pupil intervention, cutting out hours of trawling through data manually.”
- Significantly provides school data“We use the data from tassomai on a daily basis to measure pupil engagement with not only homework but also independent learning. This is then communicated with parents/carers on a regular basis. We also use information on the accuracy of answers to inform lesson planning and individual intervention with particular students.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The data that tassomai provides on both individual pupils and classes as a whole can be used to great effect planning lessons e.g informing retrieval practise starter tasks and forming synoptic links for overlearning. The fact that tassomai enables this with minimal admin time has had an overwhelmingly positive effect on teacher work/life balance as well as pupil engagement.”
- Significantly improves attainment“We fundamentally believe that tassomai has played a key role in ensuring that our GCSE exam results for Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Combined Science have all been above the National average at grades 4+ and 7+ for the past 2 years.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Pupils have a much better overview of each subject as a whole and how one topic can relate to another. They are in excellent habits during their retrieval practise starter questions each lesson and are much more confident when completing independent practise questions.”
David Gash
Teacher of Science
Used Tassomai occasionally for 5 years+
May 2024
David Gash found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly provides school data
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
May 2024
It's amazing.
Thomas Morris found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Reduced tracking of students, reduced tracking of marks, reduced setting of homework manually”
- Moderately provides school data“Provides insight into students gaps to provide direction and topic selection for directed review time, starter activities, revision.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Allows teachers to use the data gained to fill gaps in student knowledge as they appear. Using Tassomai as formative assessment prior to lessons - Tassomai exposes students to knowledge prior to lessons and it is evident that students recall the information during lessons speeding up the teaching.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Homework completion has improved. Mainly due to the quick and easy nature of Tassomai and providing students with choice when it comes to the topics they can focus on.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Its evident from teaching students (particularly year 9) that they are building knowledge prior to their lessons - starter activities and question responses are much more improved and students actively say they recognise content from their homework.”
Georgia Gifford
2iC English Teacher
Used Tassomai occasionally for 1-2 years
May 2024
Georgia Gifford found Tassomai:
- Does not reduce teacher workload
- Slightly provides school data“We don't use it in English but Science have used it in the past although I'm unsure how exactly”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
Chantelle
Teacher of English - Curriculum Leader for Key Stage 5
Used Tassomai weekly for 5 years+
May 2024
It is very user friendly and offers teachers lots of useful data.
Chantelle found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Data gathering about common misconceptions.”
- Slightly provides school data
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It helps me to gather data based on the strengths and areas for development for my students. It is very useful in planning going forward.”
- Slightly improves attainment“If students are pro-active with their homework/app usage it can be incredibly impactful.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The bite-sized nature of how the knowledge is revised is so good for them.”
Louis Lockwood
Teacher of science and pe
Used Tassomai daily for 1-2 years
May 2024
Louis Lockwood found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“No homework planning or marking”
- Significantly provides school data
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Can help to show weak areas of students”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students who use effectively show signs of improvement”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Good at retrieval practice and memorising information”
May 2024
Absolutely fantastic product and customer service
Lynda found Tassomai:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It is used for students who cannot attend school for various reasons”
- Moderately provides school data“Shows attendance”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“No”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students not in school can learn”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Reinforces learning”
Apr 2024
Not only is Tassomai hugely beneficial to students to help them to learn the key facts needed in the science course, but it has huge potential for us as teacher to analyse and use the data in a way that makes a different to the students’ learning. The team at Tassomai are superb; responsive and willing to help us set up the best system that is tailored to our students in our school. The students have engaged well with its introduction and are already telling us that it is making a difference to their learning and revision. A low effort, high impact tool that we really value having. Highly recommended.
Rebecca found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Effective retrieval homework, tailored to the individual student that does not need marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Analysis of whole class and cohort data on how well topics have been understood and retained by students.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Quick and personalise howework able to be set using a few clicks”
- Significantly improves attainment“Higher AO1 scores achieved due to better fact retention”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Improve recall of key science facts by students who regularly use Tassomai”
Mar 2024
Fantastic software
Rezaul found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ease of monitoring”
- Significantly provides school data“Communication with parents”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“shows gaps”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Feb 2024
I think it has given significant improvement to work load and to closing gaps in student knowledge
Hetty Ollivant found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Not having to set or mark work weekly”
- Moderately provides school data“No”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“No”
- Significantly improves attainment“Student have targeted support”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Feb 2024
It's a great revision tool
Sarah-Jane Ryan found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Set as homework so no marking.”
- Moderately provides school data“Homework grades”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Not a teacher”
- Moderately improves attainment“We have had students who have significantly improved grades when completing the whole course”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“It really helps with embedding specialist vocab and concepts”
Feb 2024
Has been very useful and great easy access for students (can do on phone on bus to school etc). To improve it would be good to have breakdowns of what students are commonly getting wrong in our school compared to similar centres. We got sent this as a separate spreadsheet but a built in part of the software to do this and export to csv would be amazing.
Mr O Snell found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Self marking homework”
- Moderately provides school data“Use commonly misunderstood questions as starters in lessons”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Quick quiz at the end of lessons”
- Moderately improves attainment“Correlation between Tassomai usage and residual grades”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Students will say "oh yeah I was doing that on Tassomai" when covering concepts in lesson”
Feb 2024
Still waiting for evidence of impact and challenge in English but the system itself seems accessible.
Alison Scott found Tassomai:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“Analysing the data provided and on a school level issuing achievement and behaviour points/detentions for completion/non-completion”
- Moderately provides school data“Being able to target intervention in class”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Targeting content at specific students based on question level data”
- Slightly improves attainment“Still waiting for evidence as we are early in our Tassomai journey”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Still early in our journey”
Feb 2024
Students really like it compared to other resources, the data you can gain from it is really useful for positive praise, and teacher workload is reduced
Neil found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Don't need to set or mark homework”
- Significantly provides school data“Homework engagement data”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“I haven't used it long enough to comment on this yet”
- Moderately improves attainment“Helps students learn more and remember more”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Provides students with the basics to build upon”
Paula Suttle
Head of English
Used Tassomai weekly for 1-2 years
Jan 2024
It's excellent for pupils and teachers both
Paula Suttle found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No homework to mark”
- Significantly provides school data“accuracy of memory and knowledge of texts”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“reteaching misconceptions”
- Significantly improves attainment“Progress 8 improvement in English”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“more confidence, better understanding, better memory recall”
Jan 2024
It is a superb learning platform for both students and teachers. I would not want to operate without it in teaching the science curriculum. It is a firm component in our raft of curriculum delivery strategies.
Ray Hague found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Setting weekly HW for Y7-11. Easy to check if students have completed their fDG weekly and apply rewards/sanctions.”
- Moderately provides school data“Use of Tassomai reports during parents evenings Y7-11 as well as informing data captures for reporting.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Individual monitoring of progress via BCP trees and identifying common areas of weakness via the same.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students who routinely use Tassomai improve retention of basic facts supporting AO1”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Many students attribute their developing knowledge and improvement to their use of Tassomai”
Tahmina Akhtar
Maths teacher
Used Tassomai monthly for 4-6 months
Sep 2022
Student and teacher really enjoy using tassomia and helps teachers work load
Tahmina Akhtar found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Student can practice their skill while teacher mark their books or homework.”
- Slightly provides school data“You can see how much students have improved and where there are at in their score for a particular topic”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“They are practising the skills they have learned which help them to remember the basic skill need to teacher harder topics”
- Significantly improves attainment“students enjoy using tassomai and increase their love for maths”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“if they have got a questions wrong they are able to get it right the next time round and learn from their mistakes”
Gavin Terry
Head of Science
Used Tassomai weekly for 7–12 months
Aug 2022
I have already recommended it to Maths and English as well as the trial for Business and Computer Science. It definitely suits certain subjects more than others.
Gavin Terry found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Using it as homework assignments reduces time spent marking work and allows teachers to focus their attention on where there are gaps in a students understanding”
- Significantly provides school data“We have been able to get an idea of how much time students are committing to the subject independently. We can see how many questions are being answered, the accuracy of those answers, and which topics within a Science subject students are answering easily or having difficulty with.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Establishing routines with Tassomai has helped. Whether it is being used as a starter, plenary, or for homework, it allows a quick assessment of every individual in the class and provides an independent resource for students to use.”
- Slightly improves attainment“It is perhaps a little early for us to see this yet - we may know more once the IGCSE results come out. In shorter term end of unit tests I haven't seen a noticeable increase in attainment. Having said that, students do appreciate the additional revision resource. It should help with our CIE IGCSE Paper 1/2 as these are multiple choice.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Tassomai is great at testing student knowledge and identifying areas of weakness to both the teacher and the student. Given it creates a unique learning experience for each student it helps them to focus on areas they need to. There is often a tendency for some students to simply repeatedly guess. If it had a feature where there is a simple explanation of why an answer is correct or incorrect it would have a bigger impact.”
Robert Aslett
Teacher
Used Tassomai daily for 3-4 years
Jul 2022
It’s a great program that provides lots of data and improves students knowledge with great algorithms
Robert Aslett found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No homework marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Gap analysis”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Recall”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Recall”
Celina Lowe
Director of learning
Used Tassomai daily for 5 years+
Jul 2022
It has made tracking of homework easy and looking at areas of weakness way. Getting students to track their own tree to to ensure they re cover areas of weakness
Celina Lowe found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework that can easily be tracked but no need for marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Using the coloured dots to see which topics need extra support”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Being able to see which topics are weakest”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students that use it for at least 4 daily goals per week have better understanding of topics”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Once a daily goal is achieved students can choose areas to improve upon”
Toby Boram
Assistant Headteacher
Used Tassomai weekly for 3-4 years
Jul 2022
Toby Boram found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Harry Hamilton
Head of Student Wellbeing
Used Tassomai daily for 3-4 years
Mar 2022
It is brilliant however its style of learning is not good for all; Such as those with special needs.
Harry Hamilton found Tassomai:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“It allows students to learn lesson basics earlier meaning you can fit more learning overall into one lesson.”
- Moderately provides school data“Allows school to know what level of work is needed for them.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Allows a calmer want, on learning a certain topic as they know it partly already.”
- Significantly improves attainment“A student who was deemed failing to pass last year ,started trying in Tassomai and managed to get a grade 8.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Look back to my point on attainment.”
Oct 2021
10 is a high score, I know. And this software deserves it. It is more than a learning tool. It reduces teacher workload, and individualises learning in an efficient way. The best part is that this software is not just a buy and use. It is given soul by the dedicated staff that are always enthusiastic and available to help. There are so many online videos and a blog that shows that Tassomai will continue to evolve.
Chris found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Teachers are able to check up on individual students in minutes. There is no time spent on setting homework at all!”
- Significantly provides school data“Tassomai offers metrics on the most important academic data, like who is putting in effort, what their accuracy is, and how much progress they are making.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I've been using Tassomai data to drive my feedback, starters and plenaries. It removes the need for paperwork and time spent checking answers... Time is now spent guiding learners”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students knew the answers to the synoptic section in their test, which usually trips them up.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students knew answers to questions ahead of the actual lesson (plum-pudding model).”
Jul 2020
Easy to use and gain is clear. Nothing to lose.
Alex Irvine found Tassomai:
- Moderately improves attainment“Grades improved, especially for low attainers”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Improvement in answers to AO1 questions”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Not sure if any more efficient”
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“Tassomai is additional to homework so not significant”
- Significantly provides school data“Evidence of engagement and understanding improved”
May 2020
tassomai is a great way for students to engage in learning at home. It allows stretch and challenge for them
Sobia Rafiq found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“student do better on end of topic tests”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“engaged in lessons due to use of tassomi”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“yes students are more engaged in lessons due to time spent on tassomai”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“setting tassomai as homework and monitoring progress on there”
- Slightly provides school data“topic tests have improved”
